Charles morgan



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0. MORGAN.

, GARRIAGE'SEAT. No. 350,072. PatentedSeptf28, 1886.

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ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES MORGAN, OF BRIDGE\VATER, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA.

CARRIAGE-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,072, dated September 28, 1886,

Application filed lrehruary ii, 1886. Serial No. 190,913.

[0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Orunmcs DIORGAN, of Bridgewater, Xova Scotia, and Dominion of (.)ana(la, have invented a new and useful Improvement iu Carriage-Seats, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of rel'erence indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view 01' my improved carriage-scat. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the joint of the side arm. Fig. 3 shows a modification of the side rail. 7

The object of my present invention is to improve the carriage-seat for which Letters latent No.'32l,l;l were issued to me June 30, 1885.

In my present invention I have provided for a free movement of the backboard by jointing the side arms to the back-board and connecting the back arms with the back of the seat by means of hinged joints. The back board or bar A is supported from the seat-back l) by the bars 0, fixed to the back-board A and hinged at their lower ends to two straps, a, secured to the seat-back. Upon the end or the seat are secured two arms, I), which extend up over the edge of the end of the seat and are provided with eyes e, which support a rod, (1, parallel with the edge of the seat. The rod (6 is secured in the eyes by nuts turned on the ends of the rod outside of the eyes 0.

Upon the rod 17 is placed a sleeve, l', which is formed integrally with the side arm. I), and is capable of sliding freely on the rod (1. The sleeve is preferably provided with a lining, 1 (shown in Fig. 3, of yielding material such as rul)berwhich extends over the end of the sleeve and prevents rattling, and between the sleeve f and the eye c, upon the rod 11, is placed a spiral spring, 7:. The side arm, 1), is curved upward and backward and inward toward the center of the seat. It receives the eyes i i, formed on the plate j, the eye i being threaded to receive the threaded extremity of the side arm. The plate j is socured to the back-board A by means of screws or otherwise, and when the seat is finished the plate j is covered by u ph olstery. The arrangement of the scat-back which I have described 1s especially adapted to topbuggies, and does (No model.)

not in any way interfere with the attachment of the top rail, E, in the usual way.

XVhen my improvement is applied to open buggies, the rod (1 is received between the arms 1/1), which are similar to the arms I) b,- but the arms are bent over beyond the edge of the seat, and the arm b is connected with the hair dle 'l.:, the lower end of which is secured to the front edge of the carriage-seat A. The arm b and the handle 7; are formed integrally, and at the juncture of the handle with the arm is formed an internallythreaded socket, Z, for receiving the threaded end of the rod (1, the opposite end of the rod being secured by a nut, as in the other case. The springs h at opposite ends of the seat are normally under sullicient compression to hold the back-board A in position to comfortably support the back of the rider; but when the carriage receives a sudden jerk Or shock the back-board A is pushed backward, drawing the side arms, 1), with it and compressing the spring h. The yielding of the back-board A in this manner obviates the shock usually experienced by the person occupying the seat.

The method of connecting the side arms, D, with the back-board A which I have described permits of removing the arms from the backboard by simply unscrewing them from, the eyes i, and the construction of the combined handle and side-arm support is such as to admit of releasing the opposite ends of the side arms by unscrewing the rods 11 from the sockets I. This construction admits of repairing the seat when required without the necessity of taking it entirely apart or removing the upholstery.

Having thus described my invent ion, what I claim. as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the carriage-seat A and the back-board A, of back arms, 0, at-

tached to the back-board and hinged to the M j, having screw-threaded eyes which receive said ends ol' arms, and said rod passingihrough lower enctsleeves of the arms and having screw-threaded connection with sockets connected to the seat, substantially as herein shown and describe 2. The combination, with the vehicle-seat and the back-board, of the side arms having screw-threaded end and eye-plate connections with the back-board, and provided at their lower ends with sleeves, screw-threaded sockets connected to the seat, and the screwthreaded rods passed through the sleeves at the lower ends of the side arms and screwed into the said sockets, together with means to hold the said sleeves in position against the said sockets, substantially as and for the pur- I 5 pose set forth.

3. The combination, with the sleeve fof the side arm, D, the rod d, and spiral spring h, of a yielding lining, 9, received in the sleeve f and covering the end thereof, substantially as 20 herein shown and described.

I CHARLES MORGAN.

\Vitnesses:

GEO. M. HOPKINS, (J. SEDGWlCK. 

